{"id":40157,"date":"2019-03-24T23:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=40157"},"modified":"2019-03-24T23:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T21:15:49","slug":"paul-le-roux-criminal-mastermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/24\/paul-le-roux-criminal-mastermind\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Le Roux &#8211; Criminal Mastermind"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the name I haven&#8217;t heard before &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Le_Roux\">Paul Le Roux<\/a>.  He started off as an Open Source software developer, but quickly turned into one of, if not the largest cyber criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gimletmedia.com\/shows\/reply-all\">Reply All podcast<\/a> did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimletmedia.com\/reply-all\/the-founder#episode-player\">an episode<\/a> about him recently, and the story is mind-blowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mention of Paul Le Roux trying to buy a submarine from the North Korea for his drug trafficking affairs reminded me of another crime documentary &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7983794\/\">Operation Odessa<\/a>.  Here&#8217;s the trailer to get you started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qpSHbuRC-No?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Here&#8217;s the name I haven&#8217;t heard before &#8211; Paul Le Roux. He started off as an Open Source software developer, but quickly turned into one of, if not the largest cyber criminals. Reply All podcast did an episode about him recently, and the story is mind-blowing. The mention of Paul Le Roux trying to buy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/24\/paul-le-roux-criminal-mastermind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paul Le Roux &#8211; Criminal Mastermind<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Paul Le Roux - Criminal Mastermind #business #law #crime #history","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[1968,2250,286,577,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-40157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-business","tag-crime","tag-history","tag-law","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9246,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/19\/be-cool\/","url_meta":{"origin":40157,"position":0},"title":"Be Cool","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 19, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Be Cool\" is ought to be one of the less promoted celebrity full movies of all times. 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